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Summary

The incoming Trump administration plans extensive rollbacks on electric vehicle (EV) policies, including eliminating EV subsidies, blocking battery imports, canceling federal EV purchases, and reversing $7.5 billion in charging infrastructure funding.

EPA fuel efficiency standards will revert to 2019 levels, increasing vehicle emissions by 25%.

Trade tariffs, applied globally, will raise EV costs, while California's stricter emissions rules face renewed opposition.

Public safety regulations, such as crash reporting for automated vehicles, are also set to be repealed.

These policies prioritize fossil fuels and U.S. auto manufacturing over EV adoption and environmental goals.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago

Uh oh, Daddy Elon won't like that.

[–] DarkFuture 33 points 9 hours ago

Lol. Looks like someone got paid off.

But hey, Americans voted for corruption and regression. So that's what we're going to get.

Give yourselves a pat on the back. We played ourselves...again.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 10 hours ago

I wonder what his DOGE douche is going to think about that

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

It's like everyone's crazy-ass right wing uncle/grandfather who's still living in 1980 and still thinks EVs are "hippie mobiles" managed to snake his way into power.

If they only knew what kind of power an electric motor can put out from a dead stop. Maybe we can get them to appreciate the "Tim Allen grunt" aspect of EVs. They are going to flip their shit when motorsports like drag racing switch over to electric.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Lol, can you imagine BYD buying its way into NASCAR?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

An EV doing 500 miles on a single charge?
Yeah, right. Lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Fast swapping batteries is probably the distance racing solution.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 minutes ago (1 children)

If only consumers could have battery quick-swapping technology. I imagine a world where gas stations are converted into battery storage facilities and where everyone all has the same, standardized battery type.
You pull in over a pit, a scanner locates the battery, a robot arm comes up to yank the installed battery and another arm installs a charged one. Done in 30 seconds.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 minute ago

There was a video of a system like that for Chinese taxis making the rounds not too long ago.

Would be sweet.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 hours ago

The Trump regime's policies will just accelerate the process of the USA being left behind as the rest of the world advances in technology and infrastructure. Unfortunately the MAGAs will not care, and when it affects them they'll just pick a vulnerable minority to blame.

[–] DaddleDew 16 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Didn't the US Army recently purchase what is essentially EV dirt bikes for RECCE purposes and found them extremely useful?

[–] arin 3 points 5 hours ago

Yes but who is the corrupt criminal that got voted in?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 hours ago

Who could have seen this coming!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago

Ohhh. I see. They (Trump's GOP) want to eliminate all federal agencies unless they can be used as punishment.

I've been convinced that they intend to follow through on the decades-long plan to push everything not explicitly in the constitution to the states or private corporations. This article suggests that the EPA could be used to punish ZEV states and force them to do what they want. Yeah - that makes more sense under a fascism.

The so-called ZEV states (for Zero Emissions Vehicles) do have something closer to an EV mandate, and from model-year 2026 in these states (California, Connecticut, Colorado, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia) a third of all new cars sold by each automaker will have to be battery-electric—assuming the EPA grants California a waiver to allow this to happen.

[–] FelixCress 6 points 10 hours ago

Elon will be delighted.

[–] WoodScientist 4 points 9 hours ago

We've officially reached Operation Dark Storm levels of self-destructive idiocy.

[–] twistypencil 1 points 7 hours ago

Eat poopy Donnie

[–] BradleyUffner 1 points 2 minutes ago

Has he cleared that with his husband, President Musk, yet?